The War for Africa Twelve Months That Transformed a Continent Fred Bridgland

The War for Africa Twelve Months That Transformed a Continent 

Author: Fred Bridgland 

Publisher: Ashanti Publishing          

Edition: First 1990

ISBN: 1 8744800 12 X

Language: English  

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding 

Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket  

Pages: 403. Print with images and maps    

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The story of the Cuban-South African war in Angola in 198788 through the eyes of the South Africans who fought in it.

The Angolan Civil War lasted over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002. Beginning as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA, it became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South Africa and the USA.

This book examines the height of the Cuban-South African fighting in Angola in 198788, when 3,000 South African soldiers and about 8,000 UNITA guerrilla fighters fought in alliance against the Cubans and the armed forces of the Marxist MPLA government, a force of over 50,000 men. Bridgland pieced together the course of the war, fought in one of the worlds most remote and wild terrains, by interviewing the South Africans who fought it, and many of their accounts are woven into the narrative.

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